Well, the 2019 NFL trade deadline has come and gone and our Detroit Lions, other than trading Quandre Diggs a week ago for a fifth-round draft pick, did absolutely nothing. In fact, there was only one trade on Tuesday throughout the entire league.
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Following the 4 p.m. EST deadline, Lions’ head coach Matt Patricia spoke to the media via conference call and he was quick to re-emphasize that he likes his team.
From Detroit Free Press:
“I like our team,” Patricia said in a conference call about an hour after the deadline passed. “We’re tough, we compete, we work hard. I think it’s just for us, it’s business as normal.”
Patricia also added how difficult it is to actually pull off a trade in a league where every team is trying to get better.
“Those things are really hard to come by,” he said. “I think they’re really difficult to do for everybody to agree on situations that they think will help their teams and other teams trying to better themselves.
“For us, and I’m sure a lot of people feel the same way, at this point in the season you like what you have, and you’re trying to just work to improve your team every single week. From that standpoint, not really sure why. It could have gone either way, but obviously, just everybody was happy with where they were at, I think.”
Let’s hope the current roster is good enough to put a nice winning streak together and to ultimately make a run at the playoffs.
It all starts this coming Sunday when they will take on the Oakland Raiders.
